Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. Looking for Software Developer III at Lone Tree, CO Full Time

Wealth and Management Technology is a part of the Schwab Technology Services organization supporting Schwab’s money management, research and asset management platforms to help clients manage their wealth. Our team delivers and supports Investment research applications and products used by Schwab Representatives and our Clients as they plan for their financial futures and wealth management.

As a Software Developer III for SAMS Research Technology, you will join the team as a developer delivering solutions for the business. Based on your technical skillsets, quantitative research skills, and deep interest in our financial research domain you could be working on any of our workstreams specializing in financial research engineering or cloud data engineering or traditional full stack app dev:

• Enhance our research distribution platform to distribute quantitative model results to our system consumers via our Java micro service event driven architecture
• Angular based UI development projects to automate workflow functions
• Support and enhance our financial research data pipelines and model development infrastructure in R, Matlab and Python
• Develop dashboard visualization apps using Python, Plot.ly DASH
• Database implementation projects to analyze client trading data and data migration
• Support and uplift infrastructure on existing financial research data pipeline implementations hosted in AWS and developed using Apache Spark, Apache Airflow, Elastic Search with Python & Scala languages.
• Enable our target state cloud research data lake platform implementation.

This position will enable delivering high quality solutions that meet business objectives in a flexible, collaborative and rapidly changing delivery environment. It requires highly motivated and focused developers curious to build new and innovative solutions for our Clients

What you are good at

• Design, develop and drive the next generation/cloud ready applications for Research enterprise solutions targeted for Schwab consultants and clients
• Participate in ground up modernization projects to improve user experience and collaborate with the technical architects to develop modern technical architectures
• Lead/Participate in projects and participate in mentoring junior staff
• Lead or Participate in developing cutting edge proof of concepts to be adopted into enterprise tech stack
• Analyze business problems and processes, help refine requirements and design solutions for them.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architects to research on innovative concepts in the Fin Tech space
• Drive continuous integration and deployment strategies leveraging tools like Jenkins/Bamboo with a DevOps philosophy
• Perform level three production support activities if the level one and level two teams are not able to resolve production issues
• Be a champion of new ways of collaborating with technology and business partners
• Search out and evangelize new and emerging technologies including open source tools
• Influence and implement improvements and efficiencies in the technical aspects of the development process
• Ensure the highest quality software is developed, delivered and maintained
• Be a key leader in the agile process fostering collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and transparency
• Be a mentor and positive role model to junior members of the team

What you have

• 2-3+ years demonstrated hands-on real-world experience in enterprise application development. Full stack experience preferred.
• Advanced degree in computer science or financial engineering degree with strong programming skills
• Ability to learn a diverse tech stack and deliver solutions with customer focus
• Demonstrated experience in server-side service development and expertise with enterprise integration patterns (Java and spring stack experience preferred).
• Experience using Pivotal Cloud Foundry platform or similar stack. Experience with developing and deploying Cloud ready applications
• Prefer experience working on data science and cloud data platform engineering frameworks.
• Exposure to Apache Kafka/ Rabbit MQ and other messaging frameworks
• Demonstrated real world experience in software engineering principles, such as software design patterns
• Demonstrated real world experience in database principles, such as SQL, Oracle, MongoDB or Hadoop
• Prefer exposure to data analytics using Python/R/Matlan
• Working knowledge of Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment and DevOps principles. Understanding of BDD and TDD styles
• Thorough understanding of agile software development methodologies, values and procedures
• Experience mentoring and guiding junior developers
• Experience building designs and reviewing them with architects
• Attention to details
• Curiosity to understand and leverage new tools and technologies
• Strong desire to leverage technology to build products that “wow” users
• Excellent team player with the ability to influence and negotiate
• Self-motivated as well as creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems
• BS in computer science

What you’ll get:

• Comprehensive Compensation and Benefits package
• Financial Health: 401k Match, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Employee Discounts, Personalized advice, Brokerage discounts
• Work/Life Balance: Sabbatical, Paid Parental Leave, New Mothers returning to work Program, Tuition Reimbursement Programs, Time off to volunteer, Employee Matching Gifts Program
• Everyday Wellness: Health and Lifestyle Wellness Rewards, Onsite Fitness Classes, Healthy Food Choices, Wellness Champions
• Inclusion: Employee Resource Groups, Commitment to diversity, Strategic partnerships
• Not just a job, but a career, with an opportunity to do the best work of your life

Why work for us?

Own Your Tomorrow embodies everything we do! We are committed to helping our employees ignite their potential and achieve their dreams. Our employees get to play a central role in reinventing a multi-trillion-dollar industry, creating a better, more modern way to build and manage wealth.

Benefits: A competitive and flexible package designed to empower you for today and tomorrow. We offer a competitive and flexible package designed to help you make the most of your life at work and at home-today and in the future. Explore further .

Schwab is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to any status that is protected by law. Please click here to see the policy.

Schwab is an affirmative action employer, focused on advancing women, racial and ethnic minorities, veterans, and individuals with disabilities in the workplace. If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodations in the application process, contact Human Resources at or call .

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